Quotes About Adaptation

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run

Don't fight the trail. Take what it gives you.

Nothing works out according to plan, but it always works out.

When he zoomed in, he was startled by what he found: instead of each foot clomping down as it would in a shoe, it behaved like an animal with a mind of its own—stretching, grasping, seeking the ground with splayed toes, gliding in for a landing like a lake-bound swan.

Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else.

Unlike any other organism in history, humans have a mind-body conflict: we have a body built for performance, but a brain that's always looking for efficiency.

Even your breakfast burrito plays a role; Lieberman's investigations had revealed that as our diet shifted over the centuries from chewy stuff like raw roots and wild game and gave way to mushy cooked staples like spaghetti and ground beef, our faces began to shrink. Ben Franklin's face was chunkier than yours; Caesar's was bigger than his.

Your foot is perfectly happy molding itself around rocks. All you've got to do is relax and let your foot flex. It

we got better at running because our heads were expanding, thereby providing more ballast.

You are fit if you can adapt to the demands of your environment with ease and imagination," Myers

if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.

V?šina lidí se domnívá, že neandertálci byli našimi p?edky, ve skute?nosti to však byl paralelní druh (lépe ?e?eno poddruh), který s Homo sapiens sout?žil o p?ežití. Výraz "sout?žil" je k nám p?itom pom?rn? laskavý, protože neandertálci nás p?ed?ili tak?ka ve všem. Byli siln?jší, vytrvalejší a pravd?podobn? také chyt?ejší.

slova p?ipisovaná Rogeru Bannisterovi... :"Každý den ráno se v Africe probudí gazela a ví, že musí b?žet rychleji než nejrychlejší lev, jinak zahyne. Každé ráno se v Africe probudí lev a ví, že musí b?hat rychleji než nejpomalejší gazela, jinak bude mít hlad. Je jedno, jestli jste lev nebo gazela - jakmile vyjde slunce, m?li byste utíkat.

Once you learn to think like another creature, you can anticipate what it will do and react before it ever acts. If that sounds a little Hollywood, then you've seen your share of movies about impossibly clairvoyant FBI profilers who can "see with the eyes of the killer." But out there on the Kalahari plains, mind-throwing was a very real and potentially deadly talent.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle— when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Experiment with your gears. Run slowly enough to sing as you go, then gradually pick up the pace until you can puff out only a few words at a time. Work your way up and down the gear range, mixing in a few short bursts so you remember what it feels like to go Full Burn.

What causes you to tense up is the unexpected; but as long as you know what you're in for, you can relax and chip away at the job.

But humans, with our millions of sweat glands, are the best air-cooled engine that evolution has ever put on the market.

Así que Louis tuvo que aprender a sobrevivir comiendo ligero a lo largo de todo el día en lugar de llenarse con grandes comidas, a no permitirse estar sediento, como si todos los días se encontrara en medio de una carrera en marcha. El

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Todas as manhãs em África acorda uma gazela. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que o mais rápido dos leões ou vai ser morta. Todas as manhãs em África acorda um leão. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que a gazela mais lenta ou morre à fome. Não interessa se és um leão ou uma gazela - quando nasce o sol, o melhor é correres.

de la misma forma que alzamos los brazos automáticamente cuando resbalamos sobre hielo, las piernas y pies instintivamente caen con más fuerza cuando perciben una superficie blanda. Cuando corremos con zapatillas con protección, los pies van a través de las suelas en busca de una superficie dura, estable. «Llegamos